Revival

1. Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.
2. The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
3. Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like.
4. Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
5. Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc.
6. Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
7. Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.
8. Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
9. Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature.